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New Attack on the Sea 



Modern technological devices, coupled with 

 a theoretical study of the sea, are bringing 

 oceanographers closer to a real understanding 

 of the inner workings of the oceans. 

 Leonardo da Vinci, whose wave drawing 

 appears above, was one of the first to make 

 a study of the dynamics of water. Today 

 scientists are aided by devices such as the 

 wave-recording buoy, here being lowered over 

 the side of Britain's Discovery II. This 

 instrument helps to show how the wind 

 affects the shape of waves. 



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